- Gilda: You do hate me, don't you, Johnny?
- Johnny Farrell: I don't think you have any idea of how much.
- Gilda: Hate is a very exciting emotion. Haven't you noticed? Very exciting. I hate you too, Johnny. I hate you so much I think I'm going to die from it. Darling...
- [they kiss passionately]
- Gilda: I think I'm going to die from it.
- Gilda: Would it interest you to know how much I hate you, Johnny?
- Johnny Farrell: Very much.
- Gilda: I hate you so much that I would destroy myself to take you down with me.
- Johnny Farrell: Statistics show that there are more women in the world than anything else. Except insects.
- Obregon: All you can think of is the way Gilda looked at you when you struck her, isn't it? You two kids love each other very terribly, don't you?
- Johnny Farrell: I hate her!
- Obregon: That's what I mean. It's the most curious love-hate pattern I've ever had the privilege of witnessing.
- Ballin Mundson: [referring to his knife cane] It is a most faithful and obedient friend: it is silent when I want it to be silent, but talks when I want to talk.
- Johnny Farrell: Is it that your idea of a friend?
- Ballin Mundson: That is my idea of a friend.
- Johnny Farrell: You must lead a gay life.
- Johnny Farrell: I want to go with you, Gilda. Please take me. I know I did everything wrong...
- Gilda: [sobbing] Isn't it wonderful? Nobody has to apologize, because we were both stinkers, weren't we? Isn't it wonderful?
- Johnny Farrell: Wonderful.
- Gilda: You're out of practice aren't you - dancing I mean. I can help you get in practice again Johnny - dancing I mean.
- Gilda: If you're worried about Johnny Farrell, don't be. I hate him!
- Ballin Mundson: And he hates you. That's very apparent. But hate can be a very exciting emotion. Very exciting. Haven't you noticed that?
- Gilda: You make it sound...
- Ballin Mundson: There is a heat in it, that one can feel. Didn't you feel it tonight?
- Gilda: No.
- Ballin Mundson: I did. It warmed me. Hate is the only thing that has ever warmed me.
- Johnny Farrell: Doesn't it bother you at all that you're married?
- Gilda: What I want to know is, does it bother you?
- Johnny Farrell: I thought we agreed that women and gambling didn't mix.
- Ballin Mundson: My wife does not come under the category of women, Johnny.
- [first lines]
- Johnny Farrell: To me a dollar was a dollar in any language. It was my first night in the Argentine and I didn't know much about the local citizens, but I knew about American sailors, and I knew I better get out of there.
- Johnny Farrell: [voice over] I hated her so I couldn't get her out of my mind for a minute. She was in the air I breathed - and the food I ate.
- Ballin Mundson: Now then, before we were interrupted, I believe we were about to drink a toast. So: disaster to the wench who did wrong by our Johnny. No, Gilda? You won't drink to that?
- Gilda: Why not? Disaster to the wench!
- Johnny Farrell: [narrating off screen] She still didn't believe I wasn't coming back. Every night she got all dressed up... and waited. But a girl like Gilda couldn't stand not knowing the why of things, so she decided to swallow her pride and came to see me. It was wonderful.
- Ballin Mundson: Look your best, my beautiful. This will be the casino's first glimpse of you.
- [He kisses her]
- Gilda: I'll look my very best, Ballin.
- [Looks at Johnny]
- Gilda: I want all the hired help to approve of me. Glad to have met you, Mr. Farrell.
- Ballin Mundson: His name is Johnny, Gilda.
- Gilda: Oh, I'm sorry. Johnny is such a hard name to remember and so easy to forget.
- [In a breathy voice]
- Gilda: Johnny. There. See you later, Mr. Farrell.
- Gilda: [to Johnny] You haven't been around lately. I thought maybe you were an amnesia victim or something.
- Johnny Farrell: Hey, who's she?
- Uncle Pio: A harpy.
- Johnny Farrell: How would you classify me?
- Uncle Pio: [looks at the tip he was given] Peasant.
- Uncle Pio: Your shoes.
- Johnny Farrell: About time.
- Uncle Pio: Do you wish me to put them on your feet?
- Johnny Farrell: For how much?
- Uncle Pio: The charge is slight; because, I find this always a revealing vantage point. A worm's eye view. So often the true one.
- Ballin Mundson: You're a child, Gilda. A beautiful greedy child. And it amuses me to feed you beautiful things because you eat with such a good appetite.
- Johnny Farrell: From now on, you go anywhere you please, with anyone you please. But, I'm gonna take you there and I'm gonna pick you up and bring you home. Get that? Exactly the way I'd - take and pick up his laundry.
- Gilda: Shame on you, Johnny. Any psychiatrist would tell you that your thought associations are *very revealing.
- Johnny Farrell: What are you talking about?
- Gilda: Any psychiatrist would tell you that means something, Johnny.
- Johnny Farrell: Did you hear what I said.
- Gilda: Sure I heard what you said. You're gonna take me there and pick me up. All to protect Ballin. - - Who do you think you're kidding, Johnny?
- Gilda: Nobody could ever dance like you, Johnny. When a person dances with you, it's like they're a part of you, Johnny. It's like they're...
- Johnny Farrell: You haven't improved any, had you? You always did talk your head off all the time you were dancing.
- Gilda: You used to say, "For Pete's sake, Gilda, one thing at a time." And you used to say, "Talk or dance. But, don't do both things at the same time." You used to say...
- Johnny Farrell: I still say it.
- Gilda: I have to keep talking, Johnny. As long as I have my arms around you, I have to keep talking. I might forget to dance, Johnny.
- Johnny Farrell: What do you think you're trying to do?
- Gilda: I'm not even trying very hard. But, I'm doing it.
- Ballin Mundson: Did you teach Gilda how to swim, Johnny?
- Johnny Farrell: I taught her everything she knows, Ballin. Does that satisfy you?
- Ballin Mundson: You're still dressed.
- Gilda: Yes.
- Ballin Mundson: Anything wrong?
- Gilda: Everything's wonderful. But, I told you, zippers throw me.
- Ballin Mundson: May I help?
- Gilda: Thank you.
- Ballin Mundson: You'll have a maid in the morning.
- Gilda: Will she be old and ugly?
- Ballin Mundson: Those are your orders.
- Gilda: I think that's good business, to surround yourself with ugly women and beautiful men.
- Ballin Mundson: Women are funny little creatures, Johnny.
- Johnny Farrell: Why, I don't know much about 'em.
- Ballin Mundson: Odd things are important to them.
- Johnny Farrell: Really?
- Gilda: Well, here's the laundry. Waiting to be picked up.
- Johnny Farrell: Where have you been?
- Gilda: Swimming. I bet you don't believe me. I bet Ballin won't either. Unless, you're there to back me up. You went swimming with me. Didn't we have a good time?
- Johnny Farrell: Swimming.
- Gilda: That's what it says here.
- Johnny Farrell: Where's your bathing suit?
- Gilda: Under this. Want to see?
- Maria: Carnival is the last three days preceding the Lent, which in Roman Catholic countries is given up to feasting and merrymaking. Then, come the fasting and the penance.
- Gilda: In other words, make hay while the sun shines.
- Maria: You have a strange language, little one.
- Gilda: Oh, I mean, three days of sowing wild oats, then comes the harvest.
- Ballin Mundson: [to Gilda] I want to have look at you in your costume before you go. I see you're going to carry a whip. Have you warned Johnny?
- Johnny Farrell: You can't talk to men down here the way you would at home. They don't understand it.
- Gilda: Understand what?
- Johnny Farrell: They think you mean it.
- Gilda: Mean what?
- Ballin Mundson: It amuses me to feed you beautiful things, because you eat with such a good appetite.
- Ballin Mundson: They won't let you use your own dice.
- Johnny Farrell: I didn't think it showed.
- Ballin Mundson: A man who makes his own luck, as I do, recognizes in others.
- Ballin Mundson: This I must be sure of, that there is no woman anywhere.
- Johnny Farrell: There's no woman anywhere.
- Ballin Mundson: Gambling and women do not mix.
- Johnny Farrell: Those are the very words I use myself.
- Gilda: Did you tell him what I'm doing here, Ballin?
- Ballin Mundson: No, I wanted to save that as a surprise too.
- Gilda: Hang on to your hat, Mr. Ferrell.
- Ballin Mundson: Gilda is my wife, Johnny.
- Gilda: Mrs. Ballin Mundson, Mr. Farrell. Is that all right?
- Johnny Farrell: Congratulations.
- Ballin Mundson: Oh, you don't congratulate the bride, Johnny. You congratulate the husband.
- Johnny Farrell: Really? Well, what are you supposed to say to the bride?
- Ballin Mundson: You wish her good luck.
- Johnny Farrell: Good luck.
- Gilda: Thank you, Mr. Farrell. My husband tells me you're a great believer in luck.
- Ballin Mundson: We make our own luck, Johnny and I.
- Gilda: I'll have to try that sometime.
- Johnny Farrell: It looks like one thing; then, right in front of your eyes, it becomes another thing.
- Ballin Mundson: Well, you haven't much faith in the stability of women, have you Johnny?
- Johnny Farrell: That's right.
- Ballin Mundson: One wonders who the woman was who brought our Johnny to this pretty past, don't one Gilda?
- Gilda: One does. Let's hate her. Shall we, Ballin?
- Ballin Mundson: Let's. Shall we, Johnny?
- Johnny Farrell: Let's! Now, that I'll drink to.
- Johnny Farrell: Look, I've been watching you for weeks now.
- Obregon: Then, that makes us even.
- Johnny Farrell: You don't gamble. You don't drink. What do you hang around here for?
- Obregon: The atmosphere has always interested me.
- [looks at Gilda on the dance floor]
- Obregon: Now, it positively fascinates me.
- Capt. Delgado: You could be a professional dancer.
- Gilda: I am. I mean I was.
- [Delgado pulls her close]
- Gilda: That's against our union rules.
- Capt. Delgado: I always observe the rules and regulations.
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